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Abstract

This article describes and analyzes the improvisational and innovative process that takes place between pro-fessional musicians during the extraordinary concert. The aim is to draw parallels to the professional coachingconversation in order to examine what new angles this analogy can contribute in proportion to coaching asa practice. In other words, how can an analysis of the musician’s communication during a successful concertshed light on what is happening in a successful professional dialogue.The article contains both empirical data and theory. The empirical data comes to results from a qualitativestudy undertaken in connection with my thesis within the Master of Learning Processes Specializing in Orga-nizational Coaching at Aalborg University, and is based on interviews with five professional orchestra musi-cians from the Royal Danish Orchestra, the Copenhagen Phil and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra